Recent protests in China against the regime’s harsh COVID-19 lockdown measures have further exposed the instability of the capitalist regime.
1.2 million people flooded the streets of Mexico City in response to Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call for a march. It was a powerful show of strength by the Mexican people.
Last week, the Foxconn mega-factory in Zhengzhou saw a violent confrontation between workers and the police over wage theft by management. In the following days, large and violent protests erupted in many major cities.
The 24-hour general strike in Greece represents a striking example of the power of the working class. Now is the time to escalate the struggle.
Throughout Iran, groups of youths are campaigning for a general strike and calling for the formation of resistance councils. In this struggle, the only genuine ally of the Iranian masses is the international working class.
Efforts to suppress the protest movement in Iran have only further agitated the masses. Most importantly, a series of strikes have started in the oil and petrochemical sector.
The protests in Iran sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini have turned into a national uprising, incomparable to any previous movement in the history of the Islamic Republic.
The brutal killing of Jîna Emînî by the Iranian “Morality Police” ignited a militant mass movement across Kurdistan. The only way forward is a revolutionary mass struggle using working-class methods.
Fuel price hikes in Indonesia have been met with mass demonstrations that have spread from city to city as tens of thousand take to the streets.
The most committed Chilean workers are beginning to awaken from the democratic illusions fostered by the ruling class, and in the heat of this frustrated experience, they will return to their fighting spirit.
On Saturday, between 70,000–100,000 people gathered in Wenceslas Square in Prague, calling for the resignation of Petr Fiala’s right-wing coalition government.
In Sri Lanka, three student activists are being detained without any due process and are at risk of torture for participating in peaceful protests.
